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The Sunday Best (09/13/2026)

Retain connects law firms with board-certified physician expert witnesses across 25+ specialties for medical malpractice, injury, and litigation cases. You can sign up in 10 minutes, keep everything you bill, and support your FIRE dream without burning out over paperwork, and job hunting.

Most doctors have it in them to make excellent expert witnesses, but still hesitate due to misconceptions about the work. Some common myths discourage physicians from benefiting from this lucrative side gig by planting doubts that are actually pretty easily cleared up.

Will retirement be the end of your beginning or the beginning of your end? The choice is yours. The void of eliminating work hours must be replaced by something else. Nature abhors vacuums. They’ll be filled – with something of your choosing or not.

Success sits above a line. Hard work sits below it. The message is that success is what you see. What you don’t see is everything that went into getting there.

The desire for a rich partner is not new. The internet is currently chock full of discourse about wanting a “provider,” refusing 50/50 relationships, seeking “princess treatment,” embracing a “soft life,” or wanting a partner who makes it possible to step back from work. But it’s seems less bout wanting a rich partner for expensive purchases and more so life feels easier. 

Never before, in the entirety of human history, has so much wealth been created so quickly in such a small geographical region, i.e. the Silicon Valley. Over 46,000 Bay Area residents have made a million dollars in AI equity. 6,400 of them have made over $10M. How many wealth charts and climbing up the rows on these charts before the people are happy?

Jordan Grumet pulls back the curtain on the emotional and psychological realities of reaching financial independence. Leaving his full-time medical practice was a beautiful, life-changing pivot. But it did not cure his human condition.

You’ll never regret going on a walk. Walks won’t solve all your problems but they rarely make them worse. Writers like Hemingway, philosophers like Nietzsche, and scientists like Darwin all have this one habit in common. They walk.

“When should I hire a financial advisor?” is a reasonable question, and it can be a very hard one to answer. Let’s talk about 8 reasons to hire one. 

Financial professionals make sense of the complexities of finance for everyday people’s lives. They are professional translators between one complex adaptive system (markets) and another complex adaptive system (humanity). How do professionals feel about Fast Time and Slow Time?

Your personal economy has a far greater bearing on your feelings and financial well-being than government data and aggregate averages. The one narrative that seems to make the most sense right now is that it’s impossible for young people to buy a house. How could they?

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law last July, brought some notable changes to the fine print of 529 plans, many of which took effect in 2026. Let’s take a closer look at the changes in 529 plans that you need to know about.

 

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Ask a hospitalist what passive income means and you’ll get a shrug and something vague about index funds. Fair enough. Residency handed most of us exactly one playbook: max the 403(b), buy the total market fund, wait thirty years, retire tired.Income-producing real estate runs on different math. Rent lands whether or not you picked up the extra weekend shift, depreciation lands on your return whether or not your group hit its productivity target, and a tenant pays down the note while you sleep through a golden weekend.

What trips physicians up is never the concept. It’s the operating manual. Which market, which sponsor, how to read a pro forma without a CPA on speed dial, and how any of it survives a schedule that already eats sixty hours.

Letizia Alto and Kenji Asakura built theirs while still practicing, which is the whole reason to spend a Tuesday evening with them. Advice from someone who has never carried a pager skips the parts that actually break. They know what a capital call feels like when you’re post-call, and they’ve taught thousands of doctors the same route out.

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